| Floex & Tom Hodge — A Portrait Of John Doe |
Floex & Tom Hodge — A Portrait Of John Doe (June 29th, 2018)
•♦• „Všechno vzniklo celkem organicky, ale kdybych měl jít chronologicky, jako první se začaly vyjevovat příběhy. Ty nám často pomáhaly rozvíjet a dokončovat skladby. Pak se objevila možnost symfonického orchestru a nakonec jsme přišli ke konceptu John Doe. Paradox, že jsme projekt pojali poměrně velkolepě, to možná je, ale proč mu na druhé straně nedat šťávu, když ho bereme jako oslavu! Poprvé jsme se potkali v Berlíně na jednom festivalu a zjistili jsme, že vzájemně známe svoji hudbu, protože jsme v té době oba vydávali u stejného labelu. Líbilo se nám navzájem, jakou hudbu ten druhý dělá, takže bylo snadné se spřátelit. Po čase měl Tom strávit nějaký čas v Německu při tvorbě baletu na objednávku, protože se věnuje i klasické hudbě. Naplánoval si cestu do Německa, ale jeho představy se proměnily v okamžiku, kdy zjistil, že by měl jenom sedět, sledovat zkoušky a nic nedělat. Ozval se mi, jestli by mohl přijet do Prahy. Původně jen na obyčejný výlet, ale když už jsme se tak hezky potkali, zašli jsme i do studia. Vůbec nikdo neřešil, jestli půjde o záležitost srandy, kdy budeme chvilku blbnout ve studiu s tím, že nakonec bude lepší jít na pivo, nebo jestli se to rozvine. Jestli natočíme jednu skladbu nebo album. Od první chvíle ale byla cítit energie, která někam táhla. Čistě jako zábava bez ambicí začaly spontánně vznikat zajímavé věci.” (z rozhovoru Václava Vraného)
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Album release: June 29th, 2018
Record Label: Mercury KX
Duration:
Tracks:
01 Inauguration Of Nobody
02 Wednesday (Is The New Friday)
03 Machines Are Dancing
04 John Doe Arise
05 I Dream Of Ikaria
06 Prelude I
07 Prelude II
08 Resurgence
09 Requiem
Δ All tracks: feat. Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
•♦• Some collaborations are like a firework — instant, uncontrollable and short~lived. Others are like a hearthstone fire — calculated, nurtured and long~lasting. After meeting at Berlin Festival in 2014, Czech composer/artist Tomas Dvorak (aka Floex) and UK composer/pianist Tom Hodge (of Piano Interrupted) sat down to plan and build a fire. Over three years in the making, A Portrait of John Doe is a masterful meeting of artists, instruments and styles — and one of the year’s finest records so far.’ ACloserLIsten.com
•♦• Floex (Tomáš Dvořák) and Tom Hodge have come together, blending orchestral music with the industrial and electronic, creating its own unique and organic universe.
•♦• John Doe is the everyday man. In a world of excess and social media fame, the album is an homage to our everyday lives and our routines. The pair began work on the album after meeting at the Berlin festival in 2014. The project has taken three years to complete and saw the pair work together with the Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra (PRSO) to bring the music and their arrangements to life.
•♦• FLOEX (Tomáš Dvořák) is clarinetist, composer and multimedia artist from Prague. The musical nickname comes originally from the combination of the different worlds ‚float’, ‚flex’, ‚experiment’. ‚Float’ stands for the idea of the music so deep that makes listener literary dive and float in it, ‚flex’ for music changeability — music very organic, developing and surprising listener all the time. Finally ‚experiment’ coded into the name just suggests the everlasting aim to explore new possibilities and boundaries.
•♦• In his tracks Floex creates unique atmospheric universe, which explores the possibilities of the coexistence between electronic and acoustic sound worlds. There is strong emphases placed on natural musicality and humanity on one side on cutting edge approach to electronic music production on the other. These polarities just seem to create interesting tension.
Floex & Tom Hodge said:
•♦• „We are looking for universal human stories, things that connect us. This is neither an apocalyptic or wildly optimistic vision, the album subject for ‚A Portrait Of John Doe’ is rather a search for modern human values. The theme of the album turns our attention to everyday moments of our lives, as a certain counterbalance to the unceasing pursuit of efficiency, singularity and uniqueness that is so characteristic of today’s times.“
Credits:
•♦• Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marko Ivanovič. Orchestration by Tom Hodge. Score Preparation by Chris Warner. Orchestra recorded by Jakub Hadraba in Czech Radio Studio 1.
•♦• Vocals in „John Doe Arise”, „Prelude I” and „Prelude II” by Kim Sheehan. Additional bassclarinet in „I Dream Of Ikaria” by Jiří Javůrek.
•♦• Recorded in Floex Studio, Prague. Mixed by Matouš Godík & Tomáš Dvořák.
•♦• Produced by Tomáš Dvořák.
Website: http://floex.cz/
Floex: http://store.floex.cz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FloexOfficial/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/floex.official/
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| Floex & Tom Hodge — A Portrait Of John Doe |
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Album release: June 29th, 2018
Record Label: Mercury KX
Duration:
Tracks:
01 Inauguration Of Nobody
02 Wednesday (Is The New Friday)
03 Machines Are Dancing
04 John Doe Arise
05 I Dream Of Ikaria
06 Prelude I
07 Prelude II
08 Resurgence
09 Requiem
Δ All tracks: feat. Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
•♦• Some collaborations are like a firework — instant, uncontrollable and short~lived. Others are like a hearthstone fire — calculated, nurtured and long~lasting. After meeting at Berlin Festival in 2014, Czech composer/artist Tomas Dvorak (aka Floex) and UK composer/pianist Tom Hodge (of Piano Interrupted) sat down to plan and build a fire. Over three years in the making, A Portrait of John Doe is a masterful meeting of artists, instruments and styles — and one of the year’s finest records so far.’ ACloserLIsten.com
•♦• Floex (Tomáš Dvořák) and Tom Hodge have come together, blending orchestral music with the industrial and electronic, creating its own unique and organic universe.
•♦• John Doe is the everyday man. In a world of excess and social media fame, the album is an homage to our everyday lives and our routines. The pair began work on the album after meeting at the Berlin festival in 2014. The project has taken three years to complete and saw the pair work together with the Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra (PRSO) to bring the music and their arrangements to life.
•♦• FLOEX (Tomáš Dvořák) is clarinetist, composer and multimedia artist from Prague. The musical nickname comes originally from the combination of the different worlds ‚float’, ‚flex’, ‚experiment’. ‚Float’ stands for the idea of the music so deep that makes listener literary dive and float in it, ‚flex’ for music changeability — music very organic, developing and surprising listener all the time. Finally ‚experiment’ coded into the name just suggests the everlasting aim to explore new possibilities and boundaries.
•♦• In his tracks Floex creates unique atmospheric universe, which explores the possibilities of the coexistence between electronic and acoustic sound worlds. There is strong emphases placed on natural musicality and humanity on one side on cutting edge approach to electronic music production on the other. These polarities just seem to create interesting tension.
Floex & Tom Hodge said:
•♦• „We are looking for universal human stories, things that connect us. This is neither an apocalyptic or wildly optimistic vision, the album subject for ‚A Portrait Of John Doe’ is rather a search for modern human values. The theme of the album turns our attention to everyday moments of our lives, as a certain counterbalance to the unceasing pursuit of efficiency, singularity and uniqueness that is so characteristic of today’s times.“
Credits:
•♦• Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marko Ivanovič. Orchestration by Tom Hodge. Score Preparation by Chris Warner. Orchestra recorded by Jakub Hadraba in Czech Radio Studio 1.
•♦• Vocals in „John Doe Arise”, „Prelude I” and „Prelude II” by Kim Sheehan. Additional bassclarinet in „I Dream Of Ikaria” by Jiří Javůrek.
•♦• Recorded in Floex Studio, Prague. Mixed by Matouš Godík & Tomáš Dvořák.
•♦• Produced by Tomáš Dvořák.
Website: http://floex.cz/
Floex: http://store.floex.cz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FloexOfficial/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/floex.official/
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